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Brian Johnson

Also published under: B. Johnson, Brian B. Johnson

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101
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19942025
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Brian Johnson

Also published under: B. Johnson, Brian B. Johnson

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Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas
Austin, TX, USA

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Brian B. Johnson (brianbj@uw.edu) is with the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA.(Based on document published on 4 March 2022).
Publications
101
Citations
3,838
Publications by Year
19942025
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Agents Based Cyber-Physical Diffused Museums Over Web Interoperability Standards

Dario Branco;Alba Amato;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa

IEEE Access
Year: 2023 | Volume: 11 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (2)
The availability of interoperability standards allows using a uniform model for integrating technologies and designing collaborating applications with a shared understanding of the exchanged information. In this perspective, we propose here the design and development of an agent-based platform that uses an interoperability framework to build a diffused museum in a cyber-physical system, where inte...Show More

Agents Based Cyber-Physical Diffused Museums Over Web Interoperability Standards

Dario Branco;Alba Amato;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa

Year: 2023 | Volume: 11 | Journal Article |

An Application of Artificial Intelligence to Support the Discovering of Roman Centuriation Remains

Pietro Fusco;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa

IEEE Access
Year: 2022 | Volume: 10 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Archaeological research that uncovers ancient artifacts is of critical importance, since ruins and objects are the only way to deal with the history of a city. Artificial intelligence techniques can support the archaeologists to discover remains which are difficult to be identified manually as they must be sought on a vast territory or because they are hidden from direct observation. Here we prese...Show More

An Application of Artificial Intelligence to Support the Discovering of Roman Centuriation Remains

Pietro Fusco;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa

Year: 2022 | Volume: 10 | Journal Article |

Evaluating Technology Innovation for E-Mobility

Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Marit Natvig;Shanshan Jiang;Regina Enrich Sard

2019 IEEE 28th International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE)
Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
GreenCharge is an European research project that aims at integrating and deploying innovative technologies and associated business models to facilitate the transition towards electro mobility (e-mobility). In this paper the GreenCharge approach for the evaluation of technology innovation is presented. Three Pilots will apply the proposed framework according to their specific requirements and objec...Show More

Evaluating Technology Innovation for E-Mobility

Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Marit Natvig;Shanshan Jiang;Regina Enrich Sard

Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |

A Cyber Physical System of Smart Micro-Grids

Alba Amato;Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Salvatore Venticinque

2016 19th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
Internet of Things and Big Data are characterizing more and more application scenarios and research fields such as Smart Cities, Smart Energies representing information. In fact smart objects represent a kind of producers and consumers of huge amount of heterogeneous data which increase at higher rate. In order to let them play the role of new actors in Cyber Physical Systems it need to enable the...Show More

A Cyber Physical System of Smart Micro-Grids

Alba Amato;Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Salvatore Venticinque

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

CoSSMic Smart Grid Migration in Federated Clouds

Alba Amato;Rocco Aversa;Massimo Ficco;Salvatore Venticinque

2016 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Cloud computing is probably the simplest and best fitted way for improving scalability and flexibility ofa smart-grid, however, migrating such critical data-intensive applications to the cloud is not a trivial challenge. For such applications, high security, resilience, and performance are non-negotiable. Therefore, in order to successfully host critical smart-grid applications and workloads, new ...Show More

CoSSMic Smart Grid Migration in Federated Clouds

Alba Amato;Rocco Aversa;Massimo Ficco;Salvatore Venticinque

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

Design of an Agent Based Monitoring Framework for Federated Clouds

Rocco Aversa;Luca Tasquier

2016 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2) | Patents (2)
In the last years, the Cloud services market experienced an extremely rapid growth, which may lead to severe scalability problems. Therefore, in order to cope with the resource capacity limits of a single Cloud provider, as well as to address the vendor lock-in problem associated to the choice of a single proprietary Cloud solution, the concept of federating multiple heterogeneous organizations is...Show More

Design of an Agent Based Monitoring Framework for Federated Clouds

Rocco Aversa;Luca Tasquier

Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |

An Agent-Based Platform for Cloud Applications Performance Monitoring

Rocco Aversa;Nicola Panza;Luca Tasquier

2015 Ninth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (6) | Patents (1)
The monitoring of the resources is one among the major challenges that the virtualization brings with it within the Cloud environments. In order to ensure scalability and dependability, the user's applications are often distributed on several computational resources, such as Virtual Machines, storages and so on. For this reason, the customer is able to retrieve information about the Cloud infrastr...Show More

An Agent-Based Platform for Cloud Applications Performance Monitoring

Rocco Aversa;Nicola Panza;Luca Tasquier

Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |

Agent-Based Intrusion Detection for Federated Clouds

Massimo Ficco;Luca Tasquier;Rocco Aversa

2014 International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems
Year: 2014 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
In the last years, the cloud services market has experienced an extremely rapid growth, as reported in several market research reports, which may lead to severe scalability problems. Therefore, federating multiple clouds is enjoying a lot of attention from the academic and commercial point of views. In this context, publish-subscribe is a widely used paradigm to support the interoperability of fed...Show More

Agent-Based Intrusion Detection for Federated Clouds

Massimo Ficco;Luca Tasquier;Rocco Aversa

Year: 2014 | Conference Paper |

Agents Based Monitoring of Heterogeneous Cloud Infrastructures

Rocco Aversa;Luca Tasquier;Salvatore Venticinque

2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (7)
Monitoring of resources is one among the major challenges that the virtualization brings with it within the Cloud environment since the user applications are often distributed on several nodes whose location is unknown a priori and can dynamically change. Consumers need to monitor their resources for checking that service levels are continuously compliant with the agreed SLA and for detecting unde...Show More

Agents Based Monitoring of Heterogeneous Cloud Infrastructures

Rocco Aversa;Luca Tasquier;Salvatore Venticinque

Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |

Hybrid Localization for Ubiquitous Services

Massimo Ficco;Rocco Aversa

2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
The business sector is exploring the locations and movements information of mobile users with the purpose to improve the business operations and increase the sales volume. In this scenario, the location systems should be able of tracking the mobile users in any place they move to, both indoor and outdoor scenarios. In this paper, we propose a hybrid location approach designed to support the choice...Show More

Hybrid Localization for Ubiquitous Services

Massimo Ficco;Rocco Aversa

Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |

Autonomic Agents for Real Time UAV Mission Planning

Domenico Pascarella;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa

2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
This paper investigates agent-based modelling and design of a real time mission planning module for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Agents can act on behalf of remote human operators, who impose mission objectives, performing autonomous or supervised behaviours. The planning module is in charge to deliberate the strategic tasks to achieve mission objectives and to satisfy environment constraints...Show More

Autonomic Agents for Real Time UAV Mission Planning

Domenico Pascarella;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa

Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |

Agent-Based Design for UAV Mission Planning

Domenico Pascarella;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa

2013 Eighth International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (14)
This paper investigates agent-based modelling and design of a mission planning module for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Agents can act on behalf of remote human operators, who impose mission objectives, performing autonomous or supervised behaviours. The planning module is in charge to deliberate the strategic tasks to achieve mission objectives and to satisfy environment constraints (area of ...Show More

Agent-Based Design for UAV Mission Planning

Domenico Pascarella;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa

Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |

Intrusion Detection in Cloud Computing

Massimo Ficco;Luca Tasquier;Rocco Aversa

2013 Eighth International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (24)
Cloud Computing represents both a technology for using computing infrastructures in a more efficient way, and a business model for selling computing resources and services. On the other hand, such complex and distributed architectures become an attractive target for intruders. Cyber-attacks represent a serious danger, which can compromise the quality of service delivered to the customers. In this ...Show More

Intrusion Detection in Cloud Computing

Massimo Ficco;Luca Tasquier;Rocco Aversa

Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |

Management of Cloud Infrastructures through Agents

Rocco Aversa;Luca Tasquier;Salvatore Venticinque

2012 Third International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies
Year: 2012 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (6)
In the Cloud context, the monitoring of service levels becomes critical because of the conflicts of interest that might occur between provider and customer in case of outage. Here we focus on Cloud monitoring at infrastructure level (IaaS), but with the perspective of a Cloud customer. Cloud customers cannot check the compliance of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) trusting the monitoring service ...Show More

Management of Cloud Infrastructures through Agents

Rocco Aversa;Luca Tasquier;Salvatore Venticinque

Year: 2012 | Conference Paper |

Simulation and Support of Critical Activities by Mobile Agents in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Scenarios

R. Aversa;B. Di Martino;M. Ficco;S. Venticinque

2012 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
Year: 2012 | Conference Paper |
Many contexts of every-day life are characterized by pervasiveness and ubiquity of embedded systems. These features can be exploited to support people in different scenarios, such as emergency situations and post disaster management. In this paper, we propose an agent-based approach to assist and simulate human critical activities in such scenarios. We propose a rule-based solution, which is imple...Show More

Simulation and Support of Critical Activities by Mobile Agents in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Scenarios

R. Aversa;B. Di Martino;M. Ficco;S. Venticinque

Year: 2012 | Conference Paper |

Describing Cloud Use Case in MetaMORP(h)OSY

Francesco Moscato;Rocco Aversa;Alba Amato

2012 Sixth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems
Year: 2012 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (18)
The increasing complexity of services required by users in Cloud Environments usually needs the definition of composite, value added services (VAS). Usage patterns and Use Cases definitions help in defining VAS, but a way to assure that new services reach the required goals with proper qualitative and quantitative properties has to be provided in order to validate design and implementation of comp...Show More

Describing Cloud Use Case in MetaMORP(h)OSY

Francesco Moscato;Rocco Aversa;Alba Amato

Year: 2012 | Conference Paper |

A SLA-based interface for security management in cloud and GRID integrations

Massimiliano Rak;Loredana Liccardo;Rocco Aversa

2011 7th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS)
Year: 2011 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (18)
Cloud Computing is a new computing paradigm. Among the incredible number of challenges in this field two of them are considered of great relevance: SLA management and Security management. The level of trust in such context is very hard to define and is strictly related to the problem of management of SLA in cloud applications and providers. In this paper we will try to show how it is possible, usi...Show More

A SLA-based interface for security management in cloud and GRID integrations

Massimiliano Rak;Loredana Liccardo;Rocco Aversa

Year: 2011 | Conference Paper |

An analysis of mOSAIC ontology for Cloud resources annotation

Francesco Moscato;Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Teodor-Florin Fortiş;Victor Munteanu

2011 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS)
Year: 2011 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (12)
The easiness of managing and configuring resources and the low cost needed for setup and maintaining Cloud services have made Cloud Computing widespread. Several commercial vendors now offer solutions based on Cloud architectures. More and more providers offer new different services every month, following their customers needs. Anyway, it is very hard to find a single provider which offers all ser...Show More

An analysis of mOSAIC ontology for Cloud resources annotation

Francesco Moscato;Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Teodor-Florin Fortiş;Victor Munteanu

Year: 2011 | Conference Paper |

A positioning service for pervasive objects in dynamic environments

B. Di Martino;M. Ficco;R. Aversa;S. Venticinque

IEEE 5th International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2010
Year: 2010 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
Pervasiveness of electronic devices and networks allows to design ubiquitous services, which use distributed sensors as their extensions. Localization of mobile objects using standard protocols and infrastructures is an open issue. Standard protocols that allow an integrated use of heterogeneous technologies have been defined, but it is necessary to use terminals, which are enabled to exploit a mi...Show More

A positioning service for pervasive objects in dynamic environments

B. Di Martino;M. Ficco;R. Aversa;S. Venticinque

Year: 2010 | Conference Paper |

Cloud Agency: A Mobile Agent Based Cloud System

Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Massimiliano Rak;Salvatore Venticinque

2010 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems
Year: 2010 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (48)
The cloud paradigm appeared on the computing scene in 2005 with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). After this date, a large set of related technologies has been developed. In the academic world, and especially in the HPC area, cloud computing is in some way in competition with the GRID model, which offers a middleware based approach. One of the solutions proposed is the integration of the two...Show More

Cloud Agency: A Mobile Agent Based Cloud System

Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Massimiliano Rak;Salvatore Venticinque

Year: 2010 | Conference Paper |

Distributed Agents Network for Ubiquitous Monitoring and Services Exploitation

Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di artino;Salvatore Venticinque

2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
Year: 2009 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (9) | Patents (1)
Many application contexts noways are characterized by pervasiveness of embedded systems in crowded environments of everyday life. To accomplish common requirements ubiquitous computing must address many issues such as communication among users, services and sensors, security, interoperability, collection of information and context representation. Here we present a distributed solutions based on au...Show More

Distributed Agents Network for Ubiquitous Monitoring and Services Exploitation

Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di artino;Salvatore Venticinque

Year: 2009 | Volume: 2 | Conference Paper |

Integration of Mobile Agents Technology and Globus for Assisted Design and Automated Development of Grid Services

Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Salvatore Venticinque

2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
Year: 2009 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
According to SOA model (Service Oriented Architecture), services can be used or can use other services. Participation is not supported. A service cannot collaborate with other partners being aware of this collaboration. As Grid services are developed according to the SOA model, we investigate how the integration of mobile agent technology in Grid architectures can help to overcome this limitation....Show More

Integration of Mobile Agents Technology and Globus for Assisted Design and Automated Development of Grid Services

Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Salvatore Venticinque

Year: 2009 | Volume: 1 | Conference Paper |

A Grid Service for Resource-to-Agent Allocation

Rosa Anna Micillo;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino

2009 Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
Year: 2009 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (4)
The resource allocation problem is a classical problem in the scientific literature. Here, authors present an architectural model to allow optimum resource allocation in a grid environment. They are investigating a decentralized approach to address this problem into an inter--grid nodes context; instead they argue in favor of a centralized approach in an intra--grid node context (i.e., a cluster a...Show More

A Grid Service for Resource-to-Agent Allocation

Rosa Anna Micillo;Salvatore Venticinque;Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino

Year: 2009 | Conference Paper |

Load Balancing of Mobile Agents Based Applications in Grid Systems

Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Renato Donini;Salvatore Venticinque

2008 IEEE 17th Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Year: 2008 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Advanced grid functionalities and applications can be developed exploiting mobile agents technology. State-full migration can help to distribute computation where data reside and among new available and less busy machines. However when mobile agent technology is used new kinds of interaction facilities, such as cloning and migration, require execution of agent platforms, which represent an additio...Show More

Load Balancing of Mobile Agents Based Applications in Grid Systems

Rocco Aversa;Beniamino Di Martino;Renato Donini;Salvatore Venticinque

Year: 2008 | Conference Paper |

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